Microsoft® Office Excel 2003 Inside Out

Managing Worksheets

You can have as many as 255 sheets in a workbook; consequently, there's no need to try to fit everything onto one page. The following sections present the basics, as well as a few interesting features you can use to organize your worksheet world.

Inserting and Deleting Sheets

To insert a new sheet in an existing workbook, choose Insert, Worksheet. The new sheet tab appears in front of the active sheet tab. You can also quickly insert sheets by right-clicking a sheet tab to display the shortcut menu shown in Figure 5-13. Choosing Insert opens the Insert dialog box containing a list of objects that you can insert, such as chart sheets and worksheets.

Figure 5-13. Right-click any sheet tab to display a worksheet-focused shortcut ...